Building Fire Dynamics and Fire Evacuation, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

The occurrence of building fires has been frequent in recent years, and more (super) high-rise buildings in metropolitan areas may result in crowd disasters and huge property loss, with the challenge of guaranteeing the evacuation safety of occupants in such structures still ongoing due to the difficulty in predicting a fire’s development. Thus, we are pleased to invite researchers from all over the world to investigate the dynamic behaviors of smoke and flames, as well as crowd evacuation in building fires.

This Special Issue aims to link internal psychological features to external human behaviors in building fires, find the spatial–temporal evolution of crowd disasters, and provide suggestions as well as methodologies for crowd management in building fires. This Special Issue also focuses on promoting scientific and technological communications directed at fire dynamics and evacuation in building fires, and aims to cover all of their aspects and the related management, application, fire smoke dynamics, flame behavior, evacuation experiments and modeling, human behaviors in fire, fire risk analysis, and fire as well as crowd management, in addition to the chemistry and industrial applications of fire-retardant chemicals.

In this Special Issue, we welcome original research articles and reviews concerning areas including (but not limited to) the following:

• Evacuation experiments and modeling;
• Human behaviors in fire;
• Crowd management methodologies;
• Fire smoke movement and control;
• Flame behaviors in combustion and flame spread;
• Properties of combustion products—heat, smoke, flame, etc.;
• Fire detection and suppression, risk analysis, and management;
• Fire testing of materials;
• Fire modeling.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Lizhong Yang
Dr. Zhijian Fu
Dr. Zhilu Yuan
Guest Editors

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• evacuation dynamics
• behaviors in fire
• fire and smoke spread
• fire control
• fire-retardant materials
• fire investigation
• fire risk analysis
• fire modeling

• Building Fire Dynamics and Fire Evacuation in Fire (12 articles)